How do you judge a remix? Do you compare it to the original composition, or detach it completely. Should it sound familiar, or entirely different? It’s an issue that comes up when writing about remixes, and I imagine a lot of music writers bring different standards into play. Baroque, who does a lot of reworks,…
Nu Clear Classmate EP Lick The Star is out now, and possibly to celebrate this two remixes of tracks off that album are available online. Good On The Dancefloor pals White Scooper tackle “Causeless Pain” and spoon out the darkness of the original. In it’s place…something resembling minimal techno which casts the once paranoid track…
Obligatory “Yoko Ono’s an amazing artist and if you think differently you are very wrong” point. OK, with that out of the way…the Japanese avant-gardist’s 1980 tune “Give Me Something” gets a 21st century makeover courtesy of Junior Boys. The Canadian duo transform Ono’s track into…a Junior Boys track. It’s all sexy synths and space….
First, a site tease: expect a mini-review of Baroque’s debut EP Waste Your Time very soon. Thought, to offer up a quick summary sans flowery metaphors, it’s pretty great. In other Baroque news, the heavy-hitting music producer recently remixed British buzz-kids Delphic and their single “Doubt.” The original track resembled a slightly moodier Klaxons track…
Not only did I learn about Japanese electro whiz-kid Scottish Fold (aside: CUTEST ARTIST NAME EVER), but through his remixes I also learned about a slew of other electronic musicians. Having never heard of any of his rework subjects, I did the objective thing and listened to both the original and the Scottish Fold take….